“MERDE” (Shit) · Visual Poetry by Cuca Canals Cuca Canals holds a degree in Advertising and Public Relations from the Universitat Autònoma in Bellaterra (Barcelona). She worked in advertising until 1992, winning the most important international awards in the film festivals of Cannes (winner of the Grand Prix), New York, San Sebastián and Brussels. Furthermore, she is the only woman in Spain to have won

A ride in the sky. Olot, Garrotxa Natural Park, 7 o’clock in the morning, 9 July 2016. It’s true, you have to wake up early, really early, to see the sunrise or to be able to fly in a hot air balloon over one of the most beautiful areas in Catalonia: the Garrotxa Natural Park, the only volcanic area on the Iberian Peninsula. Although it hasn’t seen any volcanic activity for thousands years, the regi

Can you leave this notebook blank? Aren’t you drawn to the idea of starting to flip the pages in search of a message? And, after seeing that it is really completely blank, would you make it your own? Maybe you see too many pages, too much work. It’s a way to kill time; someone has to do it. A world without writing is a sad, uneducated world without learning. It takes a massive push to get started and even

The “post”. The reader is insightful and well travelled, and knows, therefore, that this is a blog post, which is what you were obliged to have before you were forced to open a Facebook account and, then, successively, Twitter, Instagram… ad nauseam, and with the expiration, always, of the digital extension of the prior ego. That which, without much success – unlike in French – someone proposed we call, in proper Cat